This Security Primer course provides learners with a high-level view of cybersecurity ecosystems and tools, as well as best practices and pitfalls in general. Students learn fundamental security concepts and the core elements to a secure infrastructure. They explore how to write security objectives for planning a secure application deployment. The course concludes with students learning to identify security weaknesses and exploring best practices for securing any compute infrastructure.

Learning objectives

• Understand cybersecurity best practices from a big picture perspective.
• Discuss fundamental security concepts
• Describe the core elements to a secure infrastructure
• Write security objectives for planning a secure application deployment
• Identify security weaknesses
• Apply best practices for securing any compute infrastructure